Unidad de la ciencia y pluralismo epistémico: dos proyectos epistemológicos con objetivos políticos comunes
Resumen
Unity of science and epistemic pluralism: two epistemological projects with common political goals.
The Unified Science Program had its defenders; the Vienna Circle members were among them. Around the 1930’s, Otto Neurath, a representative author of this philosophical movement developed a particular project towards the Unity of Science, recognizing that science was not homogeneous. Throughout the twentieth century, the idea of unity was abandoned as a virtue and was replaced by pluralism. In contemporary philosophy of science, Paul Feyerabend is the best known defender of pluralism. In this paper I will argue that the seemingly incompatible epistemological projects of Neurath and Feyerabend converge at last. For both of them, education, the public character of knowledge and its socialization make possible, from a normative point of view, that knowledge accomplishes the goal of serving life.
Key words: Unity of science, pluralism, education, knowledge communication, public character of knowledge, socialization of knowledge.
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